Nvidia shares at a 52 week high after gaining 12% through 2015

With their data centers, servers and high-end GPUs, Nvidia have been seeing steady growth, recording an increase of 8% over the last few years. With more and more people moving from consoles to gaming PCs and the popularity of Steam as a gaming platform increasing, analysts at the Investor Guide predict this will only continue.

Software like GeForce Experience will likely help push this growth, with it introducing more features to their GPUs, like the ability to record and stream, as well as streaming co-op games to a friend's PC. There's also the partnerships Nvidia has with game publishers, working together to make games run optimally on their cards.

It was one of these promotions that made me buy my GeForce 970 when I did - I managed to grab The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and Batman: Arkham Knight for free with my purchase of the card. I saw it as getting the card £80 cheaper, making me feel better about spending the best part of a grand on my rig. Though Batman is still far from a good port, but that's hardly Nvidia's fault.

It's stuff like this that will likely entice more people over to their cards. There's also the Maxwell architecture that's been added to gaming notebooks, upping performance by up fo five times. Nividia are making a big push to put their tech in as many hands as possible.

"As a result, NVIDIA will be able to expand its gamer base in both the casual games and enthusiast segments," says the Investor Guide. "Additionally, NVIDIA has a robust balance sheet as its cash position stands at $4.50 billion as compared to a lower debt of $1.40 billion. Hence, the company is well-placed to make growth investments going forward that will allow it to sustain its impressive financial growth."

What card do you use? Do you use GeForce Experience often? Are you satisfied with it? Let us know all of your thoughts about Nividia stuffs in the comments.

I worry about Nvidia getting too big for their boots. I know capitalism is something that Joe Average accepts all willy-nilly as an aspect of life, but monopolies really aren't healthy for anyone. We've all seen what happens when a corporate entity gains too much control of any one market.

And it's always the worst for the consumer. Less of a product for more of a price. And back room deals that can't be challenged, such as perhaps the monopolistic manufacturer selling their driver loyalty to the highest bidder.

No, not good at all.

It's all roses and lollipops until you're paying ten times the money for the same hardware more lazily produced, and there are no alternatives. Like it or not, we need AMD, and we need them as full of piss and vinegar as they can be! So to speak.

Just the luck of the draw there, mate. As can be evidenced looking over any of Nvidia's patch notes. Remember that one driver that destroyed graphics cards en masse? As much as one might be able to accuse AMD of buggery, they've never buggered up as much as that. Never on such a monumental scale.

I'm an Nvidia buyer myself. Just not a blind fan, you know? I think that willing blindness in any situation is utter folly. There are those who would have that metaphorical sight and use it! Of course, we're talking about brain power here rather than literal sight, but still. I bet there are lots of people who'd like unused, healthy brain bits with which to patch our own failing cerebral cores. Myself included.

Nvidia took that drive down in next to no time so the problem was limited to the few people who got it there and then and even further limited by cards with external or other fan controllers. but even then the only time a card failed was when someone had over ridden the limiters that caused the card to more or less shut down when it got too hot since the fault in the driver was only stopping the fan spinning up faster. so yes it was a fuck up, but for most people it was a crash and not any real damage unless you had other things in place allowing to overheat to an insane level. (normally people who had overclocked and removed the limitations but then for the most part they would be using third party coolers that didn't use the graphics card controller so the driver fault wouldn't affect them)

so yes it was a failing but it wasn't a massive one and it was contained and fixed before most people even heard about it.